I do not love this *not one bit* - and the “No way not never” column is stacked much higher than the “Well, maybe if we’re desperate” one - but if Amazon take over test and trace it might actually hit some targets.
And tbh the general chaos and running down of public services has made this inevitable. This is not that different to how I imagined Brexit and big tech might shake out at the end of 2018.
Whichever way you look at it, privatisation-by-incompetence is a sorry state of affairs.
Anyway, if you zoom in and read the story, this is going out to tender, so Amazon not the definite supplier.
What a big and exciting day for the privatisation of the state by big tech! Looking forward to someone doing a deal that makes Facebook the host of the next UK election.
And also, yes - best not be too scathing. These are difficult and unprecedented problems and making them work is tough - many people are working incredibly hard, *but* neither the strategy nor the ideology driving the approach seem to be working.
Also, please can someone fix it so that the answer to the £100bn Project Moonshot isn’t “Amazon”?
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